Ronaldo is putting in the effort, he's been remarkably unfortunate but he's trying. Benzema looks completely defeated out there. That said Zidane needs to do something about allowing Ronaldo to waste our free kicks. With Ramos, Varane and Ronaldo being very good with their heads, we should be playing ball and hoping one of them gets on the end of it. Ronaldo paradoxically is hurting his own chances by greedily insisting on taking the kicks.
He's not even getting it over the wall. There are multiple better FK takers than him on the pitch. Teams foul knowing that the chances of scoring from it are remote to none.
He misses like fiftey of them and then scores one when we need a goal to escape defeat in the 90 minute of the game. Wtf
Free kicks aren't as easy as you might think and the rate that people expect goals from them is overrated. While I agree that Ronaldo doesn't deserve undisputed free kick duty - I'm pretty sure if we gave the majority of them to someone else the conversion rate from there wouldn't increase drastically if that person was always opting to shoot like CR. We had players like Roberto Carlos go years without scoring from a free kick despite taking plenty as did Beckham who's conversion rate from the wasn't anything special despite his reputation. Ronaldo still holds the record for most free kick goals in la liga history despite only being here for 8 years. What we should really do is get more crosses in from them rather than someone just taking over from Ronaldo to continue shooting
Ronaldo isn't getting them over the wall. While you won't score directly on more than 10-15% at an elite level, you certainly should be getting it over the wall and testing the keeper. That alone would create a chance either from a corner or a spill from the keeper or a rebound off the post.